6 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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barium. It is, in fact, in no way separable from B. mnioides, and 
in habit is about intermediate between the slenderer and the robust 
forms of the species. 
Sound, West Coast, &c., it fruits freely, evidently requiring a great 
deal of moisture. . . . I note that in the New Z 
T have been able, through the kindness of Mr. Robert Brown, to 
examine a fine series of specimens (now in the Kew Herbarium) of 
his plant, and after close examination I cannot find that it shows 
any difference from B. mnioides. 
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catis."” I have seen no male inflorescence except in the case of 
Brown’s New Zealand specimens, and here the plant certainly 
appears to me to be dioicous. The male stems are sometime 
slightly intermixed with the female, but on being traced to their 
thick gemmiform male flowers, forms distinet separate tufts. I 
give below, in the diagnosis of the species, a detailed description of 
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_mmioides do sheathe the seta to the base of the capsule (cfr. 
Schwaegrichen’s figures), or often reach beyond it, all the alleged 
